# Adding Preposition

Thomas Wouters (zonny@dds.nl)
Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:57:37 PDT

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    On Fri, 7 Jun 1996 ninoles.fabien@ic.gc.ca wrote:

    > They're someone who knows how to adding some preposition to the
    > one recongize by the server. It's mostly adding alias of it then
    > completely new ones. The purpose it's to make the server able
    > to understand other language (like French) without having to
    > parse all the argstr...
    > Because I'm not sure of my english, I let you an example:
    > I make an alias of @describe as @decris (french translation of
    > describe verb). I would like that the command
    > @decris moi comme ....
    > will be interpreted exactly in the same way as
    > @describe me as ....
    > As you can see, some 'variables' (as me/moi) have to translated
    > too if possible... (don't know if me is a variable or not).

    They are stored in 'db_verbs.c' (Don't ask me why it's not a option in
    config.h) -- you have to alter them there. You can just append your alias
    for the prep, like this:

      "as",

    would become:

      "as/comment",

    You can use spaces in the prep names, but i'm not sure about other chars
    (like ' or `) -- one character you wont be able to put in a prep in any
    case, is a / ;-)

    Hope this helps,

    Thomas.

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